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Jonathan Israel's paper, "Spinoza’s Formulation of the Radical Enlightenment’s Two Defining Doctrines : How much did he owe to the Dutch Golden Age Political-Theological Context ?", followed by Charles Ramond's response.

Though philosophy may not know nationalities, it does know languages. It is in this manner that traditions of interpretation are created, traditions that share common references but whose differences make their confrontation necessary. The development of Spinoza research in the United States over the last decades, from often profoundly renovated historical, ontological, logical, moral, and political perspectives, justifies the organization of a discussion with contemporary French interpreters of Spinoza, heirs to the French Spinozist tradition. The International Conference Spinoza France États-Unis will be the site for such a discussion, both friendly and scholarly.